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COX Communications’ 5th National Teen Summit on Internet Safety
If you have teens or tweens in your life, Blogalicious ‘ bLink wants to make sure that you are aware of this upcoming event on Tuesday, June 15 in Washington, DC and is extending the invitation to all local parents.
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COX Communications’ 5th National Teen Summit on Internet Safety
Retro Yellow and Black Ms. Pac-Man Dress with Fruit Pattern and Pink Bow
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Retro Yellow and Black Ms. Pac-Man Dress with Fruit Pattern and Pink Bow
By the Numbers: Cash for appliances rebate program boosts April shipments of major appliances
20 percent Year-over-year increase in shipments of dishwashers, dryers, freezers, ranges/ovens, refrigerators, and washing machines for April 2010, according to the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers , which attributes the upswing to the ongoing cash for appliances rebate program . “The state rebate programs, also known as 'cash for appliances,' have had a measurable, positive impact on the appliance industry,” said AHAM president Joseph M.
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Materials, nanotechnology, iPhone app
Science news links for June 3rd through June 8th, including my latest contributions to Materials Today magazine: Nanotechnology fights cancer – Functionalised single-walled carbon nanotubes, rather than being a health risk, cause T cell antigens to cluster in the blood and stimulate the body's natural immune response. Flat-packed carbon – Synthesising and isolating new forms of pure carbon allotropes, has been the focus of much research during the last two to three decades not least because of the discovery of the fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and more recently graphene. It is the possibility of synthesizing thin films akin to graphene, but with novel connectivity that piqued the interest of researchers in China who have now produced a novel allotrope called graphdiyne
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If you own a recalled Maytag dishwasher, should you have it repaired or get a rebate with the purchase of new model?
It might make financial sense to replace your recalled Maytag dishwasher than to get it repaired.
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If you own a recalled Maytag dishwasher, should you have it repaired or get a rebate with the purchase of new model?
Bargain Tuesday: Redherring evening bag
Wow! We love this delicate cream and gold cross-body evening bag from Redherring. As ever, the label does its damndest to produce accessories that look just like the designer brands, without a hint of tackiness. This bag is bang on the money, and every element sits prettily against the next.
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Bargain Tuesday: Redherring evening bag
Whose Bag? Festival lover
This celebrity behind has certainly been seen ‘bumming around’ a festival or ten in the past, and by all accounts it isn’t planning on parking itself anywhere more luxurious than a tent any time soon. The ‘Glastonbury’ belt is cool as heck, but we’re also eyeing up the rock chic studded heart pouch our celebrity moshpit Mum is ‘rocking’ here.
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Whose Bag? Festival lover
Riding Seattle in Honor and in Memory
By Kris Rhodes- LIVE STRONG Seattle Challenge Participant My immediate connection to cancer is that every member of my extended family (grandparents, parents, uncles, nieces, etc.) except my mother and sister have had skin cancer at some point.
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AP 15300 vs 15202 continued…
About a year ago, I wrote that the Royal Oak Date ref.15300 could be more interesting than the famous Royal Oak ‘Jumbo’ Ref.15202 (click here for the article). Not long after that article, I decided to pull the trigger on Royal Oak Date. On the 24th of December 2009, I did a trade-up to the Related posts: AP Royal Oak: 15300 more interesting than the 15202 (a.k.a Jumbo)
Colorful Custom Camera Straps
Add a bit of flair to your camera with one of High Key’s colorful camera straps. There are currently over 20 different designs available to choose from and even the option to design your own camera strap
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Colorful Custom Camera Straps
Testing tests
Teaching is meant to help students learn, usually about a specific subject, but more broadly about social interactions, working in a team, under duress, about life in general. They say that your schooldays are the best days of your lives, but perish the thought I’ve never been one for clichés and that one smacks of sentimental notions about the good-ole-days, as far as I’m concerned. One aspect of institutional learning, the kind to which the vast majority of us have succumbed at some point in our lives is assessment, tests, exams, SATs, O-levels, highers, GCSEs, CSEs, K12 , degrees, vivas etc
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Testing tests
Kelly Rowland’s colourful D&G ‘Lily’ bag
Both Kelly Rowland and pal Beyoncé are known D&G addicts, so it’s no surprise that Kelly was seen brandishing this gloriously colourful bag when she arrived at the May Fair hotel earlier this week. Looking to be in particularly radiant spirits, she held up the bag, which has an exciting array of zips and multi-coloured leather panelling that creates a dazzling effect from a distance.
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Kelly Rowland’s colourful D&G ‘Lily’ bag
Herbalife’s Mexico Contact Center Rated #1
MarketWatch : Herbalife announced that its contact center in Guadalajara, Mexico, has received a Center of Excellence Award from BenchmarkPortal, in conjunction with The Center for Customer-Driven Quality, founded at Purdue University. The Center for Customer-Driven Quality awards the Center of Excellence Award to customer service call centers that rank in the top ten percent of the 20,000 call centers studied
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Mermaid Monday #17: Layered Wedding Gown with Pink Pearls, For A Mermaid-Human Wedding
Click for larger version (PNG) ; click for PDF version. Click here for the list of dolls. It happens, sometimes, that a mermaid falls in love with a human: maybe with a sailor, a brave seventh son, or maybe a shipwrecked prince.
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Mermaid Monday #17: Layered Wedding Gown with Pink Pearls, For A Mermaid-Human Wedding
Father’s Day – Perfect Gifts for All Dads
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 20, 2010. Choose the perfect gift for your Dads, Uncles, Grandpas and Father-in-laws with these Father’s Day gift ideas. Hard to buy for that special guy? Fear not, dear shopper, for we have selected these Father’s Day Presents to suit all dads from young to senior, with varied abilities and special interests. No ties this year! Yippee! Best Fathers Day Gift Ideas Vinturi Wine Aerator – All the rage in the wine world, these instant wine aerators serve as a portable decanter to ”open up” your wine, one glass at a time. Just pour the wine out of the bottle, through the Vinturi, into your wine glass. An absolute must for all wine enthusiasts, especially wine loving dads. See all Wine Gifts Projection Clock w/Temp – Dad will know EXACTLY what time you came in last night with this handy projection clock. He’ll also know the day, month and temperature outside. Smart daddy
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Father’s Day – Perfect Gifts for All Dads
Even if cash for appliances has closed where you live, you might still be able to find rebates
It pays to keep on looking for appliance rebates. In New Jersey, for instance, the ARRA Energy Star Appliance Rebate program has ended, but the state's Clean Energy Program recently instituted a $20 rebate for the purchase of a new Energy Star-qualified room air conditioner through August 31, 2010, with the rebate application and all required documentation postmarked by September 30, 2010.
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Even if cash for appliances has closed where you live, you might still be able to find rebates
J & A Master Bedroom (and the Easy Way To Scrape Heavy Texture From A Ceiling)
Happy Monday to you all! Today’s post won’t be terribly thrilling, or filled with beautiful pictures, but I hope that it will be useful for many.I often hear people talking about scraping the heavy texture (sometimes called “popcorn” ceiling or acoustic texture) from their ceiling using sprayers filled with water. That method works (as long as the texture hasn’t been painted).
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J & A Master Bedroom (and the Easy Way To Scrape Heavy Texture From A Ceiling)
Claim Check: Can the Ove Glove Hot Surface Handler stand the heat?
Given the claim by its manufacturer that it can handle temperatures up to 540°F, we decided to subject the Ove Glove Hot Surface Handler to some high-temperature and flame-exposure tests. You'll have to read our review of the Ove Glove ($14 to $19) and watch the video here to see how well this high-tech pot holder made with Nomex and Kevlar worked
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Claim Check: Can the Ove Glove Hot Surface Handler stand the heat?
Zion and the Limits of Intellectual Agrarianism
There is a strand of progressive Mormon thinking that associates Zion with an exaltation of agrarian virtues. I am thinking here of folks like Hugh Nibley or Arthur Henry King or my friend Russell Arben Fox who argue that small scale, local economies, ideally based in large part on agriculture provide the best possible model for building Zion. At least one way of understanding this line of thinking is to see it as a kind of Mormonization of agrarian thinkers like Wendell Berry. It is striking in this regard that Leonard Arrington, whose works on nineteenth-century Mormon communitarianism provide the historical ur-texts for much of this thinking, was trained at North Carolina in a progressive economics department then much under the influence of an earlier generation of Southern agrarian thinkers. I am skeptical. Cooperation and trust, are, it seems to me key to the idea of Zion. If the Lord’s people are of one heart and one mind they must be able to rely on one another and work well together. Levels of trust and cooperation, of course, are not uniformly distributed across places, times, and cultures. Robert Putnam, the contemporary guru of social capital theory, famously made his academic name contrasting the high-trust, high-cooperation society in northern Italy with the low-trust, low-cooperation society in southern Italy.
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Juan Pelota Ranch and The Mellow Classic
The Mellow Classic series began last fall when Lance Armstrong teamed up with Mellow Johnny’s to put on a world-class mountain biking race at his Juan Pelota Ranch. Lance himself took part last year (only to flat out a few miles into the race).
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Juan Pelota Ranch and The Mellow Classic